When Joe Sakic and Bill Guerin spoke Tuesday afternoon about the exchange of third-party advocates Ian Cole and Greg Pateryn, the trade made sense for every CEO, in part because the Colorado Avalanche was in Los Angeles and the Wild in Anaheim.
There are pages and pages of COVID-19 protocols this season and any commercial air travel after a trade would require a quarantine.
But with the Avs on the freeway, private car transport would technically make Pateryn available to the Avs if they wanted to play him against the Kings on Tuesday night and Cole would be available to make his Wild debut on Wednesday night. against the Ducks.
“Ian is a guy I know very well from my days in Pittsburgh and someone I trust on the ice. I like the way he behaves, “Guerin said.” And when Joe told me he would be available, we worked on it quickly and did something. I think the fact that they were right on the street in Los Angeles, and we are …